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HOUSE  OF  REPRESENT ATn'ES,  December  21,  1863.— Post- 
poned and  ordered  to  be  priuted. 

[By  Mr.  Ivkad,  in  the  nature  of  a  substitute  for  tho  bill  to  '*  j)rovide 
for  disabled  officers  and  soldiers."' 


Continuing  in  pay  all  discharged  soldiers    by  reason    of  wounds  and 
injuries  received  in  the  service. 

1  Section   I.    The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do 

2  enact,  That  all  commissioned  and  non-commissioned  officers, 
S  musicians  and  private  soldiers  who  have  been,  or  who  may  here- 
i  after  be  discharged  from  service,  by  reason  of  wounds  and  inju- 
5  ries  received,  or  diseases  contracted  in  the  service,  and  in  the 
G  line  of  his  duty,  or  that  may  have  been  so  received  in  the  ser- 
7  vice  of  any  of  the  States  comprising  this  Confederacy,  whose 
S  services  and  troops  have  been  recognized,  and  received  into  the 
f)  service    of  the    Confederate   States,    and    who    shall    have  been 

1(1  declared    wholly,  or  in    part,   disabled    by   wounds    or  injuries 

11  received  in  the  service,  so  as   to  disable  them  from  further  ser- 

12  vice,  or  so  as  to  render  them  unfit,  for  labor  in  whole  or  in  part, 

13  shall  be  continued  in  pay  from  tlie  date  of  their  discharge,  until 


1 4  the  present  war  shall  have  been  concluded,  at  the  rate  and  manner 

15  hereinafter  declared  :  Provided,  That  the  said  officers,  musicians 

16  or  privates,  shall  not  have  received  from   the  Government  any 

17  office  of  pay  or  profit :  And  provided  further  ^  That  on  the  appoint- 

18  ment,  hereafter,  of  any  such  officer,  musician  or  private,  to  any 

19  office  of  pay  and  profit,  that  his  pay  under  this  act  shall  cease. 

1  Sec.  2.   X\\  persons  claiming  the  benefit  of  this  act,  shall  be 

2  examined  by  presenting  their  applications  to  one  of  the  boards 

3  of  physicians,  known  as  the  examining  boards  for  the  several 

4  States,  as  now  established  by  law,  and  upon  a  certificate  of  any 

5  of  said  boards  that  the  applicant  is  wholly  disabled  from  physical 

6  labor,  the  person  so  applying  shall  be  entitled  to  full  pay  at  the 

7  rate  to  which  he  was  or  may  be  entitled  at  the  time  of  his  dis- 

8  charge  :  Provided^  however,  That  no  commutation  shall  be  allowed 

9  to  commissioned  officers :     Ajid  provided^  further^  That   should 

10  said  examining  board  find  any  applicant  only  partially  disabled 

11  from  labor,  that  fact  and  the  extent  of  disability  shall  be   spe- 

12  cially  certified  and  payment  made  in   proportion  to  their  disa- 

13  bility. 

1  Sec.  3.   Payment  shall  be  made  under  this  act  semi-annually, 

2  to  wit :    on  the  fourth  day  of  March  and  fourth  day  of  September 

3  of  each  year,  which  payments  shall  be  made  by  any  disbursing 

4  quartermaster,  under  such  rules  and  regulations  as  may  be  pre- 
6  Bcribed  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  pre- 


3 

6  pare  and  furnish  to  the  several  examining  boards  now  established 

7  by  law,  or  that  may  hereafter  be  established,  such  regulations  as 

8  may  be  necessary  to  protect  the  Government  against  frauds. 

1  Sec.  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  examining  board  to  retire 

2  from  the  service  all  persons   within  the  purview  of  this  act,  so 

3  that  inferior  officers  may  take  their  places  by  promotion  ;  but, 

4  whenever  it  shjill  appear  to  said  examining  board  that  any  person 

5  claiming  the  benefit  of  this  act  shall  have  been  restored  from 

6  such  disability,  such   person   shall  be   immediately   returned  to 

7  duty :   Provided,  That   if  such  person   be  an  officer  he   shall  b© 
b  assigned  to  post  duty. 

)  Sec.  5.   This  act  to  take  effect  from  its  passage. 


